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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (2518)	12/1/1997 1:14:00 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) of 6843

Pravin, you bring up some excellent points about the K6-3D. The PII results were from a 66 Mhz mother board. The K6 3D used a 100 Mhz mother board. How much better will the PII results be when it is on a 100 Mhz BX mother board? 30%? I don't know, but it will certainly be better than it is now. Later in the article, Tom points out that running a Pentium II-300 on a 100MHz bus (vs. 66 MHz used now) won't speed it up much. This is because the L2 cache will still be running at 150 MHz. Raising the bus speed only speeds up access to memory on cache misses, which is usually less than 10% of the time. So, at most the BX chipset will speed up the Pentium II-300 by 10%. So, the BX comes out in April, I believe. AMD has about a three month window of opportunity, since I expect to start seeing K6 3D systems in January. Wow, I hope so -- that would confirm the optimistic prediction about the K6-3D put out at betterchips.com Petz

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